Appliedz/OS31 min
SMF and RMF
z/OS records almost everything it does as SMF records. Learn the key record types, how SMF is collected and archived, how RMF measures performance, and how the data feeds chargeback, capacity planning and audit.
What you will be able to do
- Name the key SMF record types and what each tells you
- Explain how SMFPRMxx, log streams and dump jobs collect and archive SMF
- Choose the right RMF monitor and report for a performance question
- Describe how SMF supports chargeback, capacity planning, licensing and audit
Lessons
- What SMF recordsSMF is z/OS's flight recorder. As work runs, z/OS and the products on it write numbered records describing what happened: who ran what, how much processor and I/O it used, who…
- Collecting, dumping and archiving SMFThe SMFPRMxx parmlib member controls what SMF records and where it writes them. Records go to SYS1.MANx datasets or, more commonly today, to log streams, and a daily job dumps…
- RMF and putting SMF to workRMF measures system performance in three monitors: long-term recording, snapshots and near real-time delay analysis.
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